The Just Third Way

Friday, December 9, 2016

The
stock market continues to soar.This is
because . . . we have no idea.Let’s
just say the stock market, in a continuing burst of (what was it Alan Greenspan
called it?) “irrational exuberance”?Whatever.The stock market just
keeps going up for some reason, and economic (and thus political) insecurity
continues to spread.Meanwhile, back at
the ranch, we continue working to spread word that there is a viable solution
out there.All we need to do is get it
to people who can get it to world leaders. Maybe the fact that this is Fulton Sheen Day might wake some people up:

Thursday, December 8, 2016

On Monday of this
week we opined that, while Sister Lioba Zahn, O.S.B. of the Mariendonk Abbey in
Germany seemed to be doing good by doing well as a day trader in the stock
market, things are not as they seem, especially in the rather schizophrenic
global financial system.While her
activities are directed at generating essential funds for the Abbey (not all of
them are able to provide the stuff of hit musicals), the end does not justify
the means.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

December is a
really bad month in which to blog if you’re trying to focus on things like the
Just Third Way.Today is a very historic
anniversary, and we could tie it in to the Just Third Way, but it would be a
pretty big stretch, and we’d spend more time justifying it than we would on the
subject at hand, which is a bit more immediate.We get enough flak from people whose personal crusades we’ve forgotten
to mention just because they have nothing to do with what we’re talking about.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

If this were a
religious blog, today we’d be gushing about how the original Saint Nick got a
rep as a real bad-ass dude by slapping down Bishop Arius for asserting that the
Son was similar, but not the same as the Father (the original lump of coal in
the stocking for bad boys and girls was a fat lip for spouting what Bishop
Nicholas of Myra thought was drivel), and how the tradition of gift-giving got
associated with him (and maybe even how he became the patron saint of
pawnbrokers).

Monday, December 5, 2016

Last week the Wall Street Journal carried one of its
more or less cute human interest stories.You know, the ones that appear on the front page and tell you more than
you really want to know about turtle ranching in Tasmania, the world’s champion
string collector, or the most prolific novelist in history — “Corin Tellado,” pen name of Maria del Socorro Tellado Lopez (1927-2009),
with more than 4,000 (not a typo) novels, and total sales of over 400
million.Most prolific living novelist?
Japanese-Brazilian Ryoki Inoue, with
more than 1,100 novels to his credit, having turned out as many as three in one
day.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Breaking
news: the latest conspiracy theory is that the Titanic didn’t really sink on its maiden voyage.It was actually a ship named Olympic.The switch was made to collect the insurance.And if you believe that, Modern Monetary
Theory (MMT) and Keynesian economics should be a breeze for you.(Nobody has bothered to explain where the
actual Titanic ended up, though.Unless it’s that thing floating next to the
rubber ducky.)

To
get back to the real world and the economics of reality, however, this has been
a busy and interesting week for those promoting the Just Third Way:

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Tuesday, November
29, 2016 was designated “National
Day of Action to Fight for $15,” meaning an across the board hike in the
minimum wage to $15.00 per hour throughout the United States.Many workers at McDonald’s restaurants walked
off the job and participated in protests, with “dozens” being arrested in
various demonstrations across the country, according
to an Associated Press Report.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

According to
historian Frederick Jackson Turner, the loss of America’s land frontier meant a
complete change in the American character as well as the gradual Europeanizing
of the United States.As Turner saw it,
the end of “free” land meant the end of democracy as well as the unique
American character that made the country great and, as Abraham Lincoln put it,
the last, best hope of earth.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Yesterday we took
a look at what made England Great & Glorious, Long to Reign O’er us . . .
at least until she screwed up the financing of the greatest commercial
expansion the world had ever seen up to then, “then” being the period prior to
the British Bank Charter Act of 1844.We
discovered that after the government took over the banking system (you don’t
have to have actual title to something to own it, you just have to control it,
as the agrarian socialist Henry George realized in promoting his theories), the
British Empire began its long and slow decline.

Monday, November 28, 2016

Last week we got
into a little discussion about Merrie Old England.One individual started gushing about how so
many inventions ’n stuff had come out of England, and wondered why this was
so.Of course, this particular
individual was into Art & Literature, so wasn’t too clear on just which
inventions she was talking about, but we got the general drift.

Friday, November 25, 2016

It’s
been a few weeks since the election, and a great many people still don’t know
what to make of President-elect Trump.We can’t say that we do, either, but we know one thing: whoever is in
the White House, if he or she doesn’t have the Just Third Way and Capital
Homesteading, the only thing the American people will have is more of the same,
only more so.To keep that from
happening, here are this week’s happenings:

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Seriously?You’re reading this blog on Thanksgiving
Day?You haven’t got anything better to
do?Well, be that as it may, we thought
we’d just give you a little something for which you can be thankful . . .
besides the election being over, that is.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Yesterday we
looked in general at how to start your own religion for fun and profit.The issue today is how to make certain you do
it successfully, or at least until people start thinking for themselves and
realize what’s going on.Since people
without property tend to think the way those in power tell them to think,
that’s usually not a problem once you’ve abolished property.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

There is a passage in G.K. Chesterton’s little book on St. Francis of Assisi —
titled, appropriately enough, St. Francis
of Assisi (1923) — that seems to baffle many people. It is the one where “G.K.” related how St. Francis was such
a one-man earthquake or revolution that, had he been so inclined, he could have
founded a new religion.Ironically, that
is precisely what some of the followers of “Il Poverello” (“the Little Poor
Man”) evidently thought he was doing, although they still called it
“Christianity.”As Chesterton made his
case,